If there's any hope to be found here, maybe the left will start trying to actually be a thing again. Centrist, Blairite, Hillary Clinton bollocks doesn't win hearts and minds. Nobody was passionate about Hillary, just about keeping Trump out, and that doesn't energise voters. Real or not, the face he presented was that of change, and that's what people want. The "centre left" is just more of the same, and if they want people to vote for something other than fascism they need to give them a real alternative.

It's like Transformers. The Autobots and Decepticons were both opposed to the old order, but they offered alternatives to it. Before Optimus came along, it was Megatron or the status quo, so even right-thinking individuals went with Megs.

Honestly as bad as Trump is going to be there's a part of me that looks forward to the smashing of the system. Because it's f***ing broken and the only way it'll ever change is if it's forced to change.

Not that I think Trump will do it of course, I'm not that naive. But he's awoken a beast, and I doubt it'll go back to sleep until change occurs. Until then we'll just have to weather the storm.

That's the one positive I've seen to this. After four years of Trump there may not be much left (in either sense of that word), but what there is will surely realise that putting out another corporate centre-left robot won't fly.

Exactly why the Democrats were morons for choosing Clinton over Sanders. Whatever happened there was no way to lose, either Sanders faced someone like Trump and won or the Establishment was rid of him when with a hypothetical establishment candidate from the Republicans.

Actually the fact they chose Hillary over Sanders is kind of astonishing. Under no circumstances was Hillary ever the right choice. The public hates her, they hated her before she was even chosen, and the only chance for victory was praying Trump was her opponent and having him implode. Which he somehow avoided.

Honestly the fury I feel towards the Democrats right now is right up there. They cost the world and their own country big time, and all because they were terrified to give a public what they wanted. It's poetically ironic that the party named after democracy was as undemocratic as humanly possible in selecting their candidate, the penalties they shall now suffer are entirely deserved.